Bardstown pharmacy owner sentenced for health-care fraud

3:34 PM,
Oct. 1, 2013

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The owner of Bardstown's oldest pharmacy - Crume Drug, established in 1852 - was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison for health care fraud.

Timothy Sizemore, 37, of Bardstown, who bought the store in 2010, admitted that over the next two years, he created fraudulent prescriptions and then billed private insurance companies and the government for them, even though they were never filled, reaping $250,000.

Sizemore attorney Scott Cox pleaded with Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., for a lesser sentence, citing the good works Sizemore and his wife Robbin have done in adopting four ...